Norwich No. 24 / Norwic
Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - cinquefoiled arches - 16
Scene Description: two per side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: a tiny one between the pair of arches in each panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09429NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Paul [demolished in 1970]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paul
Church Notes: church badly damaged by incendiary bombs in June 1942; remained a ruin until its demolition in 1970
Church Address: [location of demolished church: Grid Reference:TG 2331 0935]
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: the demolished church was located in the present St Paul's Square, off Barrack Street
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Font Notes:
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There are ten entries for Norwich [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG2308/norwich/] [accessed 13 October 2020], one of which records "22.7 churches. 2.57 church lands" in it; a separate entry records a priest and a church in it. Baptismal font of the 15th century, Perpendicular style. The octagonal basin has vertical sides between two roll mouldings, each panel decorated with a large framed quatrefoil window; the chamfer is plain; each panel of the octagonal stem of the base is decorated with a double cinquefoil arch and a tiny quatrefoil motif between the tips of the arches. Plain octagonal plinth.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937-1938.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 384621 5833144
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal